mummy
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During Greco-Roman times, Egyptian artists were called upon to inscribe funerary spells on linen mummy bandages.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
In most cases the “mummy portraits”—as the paintings are called—came to be pried or detached from the full mummy by excavators, archaeologists or thieves.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
They mapped a compact "mummy zone" within these rock layers, which represent stacked river sands.
From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2025
"My mummy died on 24 March 2020, and the Chair has made it clear that had a lockdown been a week earlier, people like my mummy would have been saved."
From BBC • Nov. 20, 2025
He’d find Mr. Burrows’s crate, pry it open, and take a quick peek at the mummy.
From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis
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